IMG Academy's Michael Mmoh recognized as possible next great American tennis star

Michael Mmoh has been a student-athlete at IMG Academy since 2011, and is highlighted in a recent article by the St. Augustine Record as a possibility to take the mantle of the next great American tennis player

With the U.S. Open in full swing in Flushing, N.Y., the question of who the next great American tennis champion may be has arisen once again. In the latest edition of the St. Augustine Record (Florida), Jean Desdunes, a longtime veteran of the United States Tennis Association's (USTA) Player Development program, sat down with reporter Will Brown to discuss the question. In the article, Desdunes highlights IMG Academy's own Michael Mmoh as one player with the potential to take the mantle of America's next great tennis champion.

Michael Mmoh is another 16-year-old starlet. He’s training down in Bradenton at IMG Academy. Desdunes reported he’s well over 6-feet tall and possesses a bigger than average serve with powerful, flat groundstrokes a la Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Incidentally, ATP #10 ranked Tsonga is not the first time Mmoh has been compared favorably to a top-ranked French champion. In a 2013 airing of Trans World Sport, Mmoh compared his own game to that of Gael Monfils, who reached a career-high ATP rank of #7 in 2011. Mmoh is currently ranked #13 in the latest ITF rankings, and reached a career-high of #8 in June. Recently, Mmoh reached the semifinals of the USTA 16-18s Boys National Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich.